Chrysopolis
BY Alan Fimister
18 September this year will be the 1,700th anniversary of the Battle of Chrysopolis in 324. The battle was in…
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Impurity: Sermon on the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
BY St Alphonsus Maria Liguori
“And behold, there was a certain man before him, who had the dropsy.” (Lk 14:2)The man who indulges in impurity…
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BY Alan Fimister
“[W]hat king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he…
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BY Alan Fimister
It is rumoured that Pope Francis may soon issue some new document placing further restrictions upon the Usus antiquior or even prohibit…
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BY Alan Fimister
G. K. Chesterton once remarked that the Catholic Church is the only power on earth capable of saving a man…
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BY Alan Fimister
What should a Catholic think about the Israeli Palestinian conflict?Obviously both parties are by and large proceeding from a world-view…
READ MOREThe Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is His Name
BY Alan Fimister
If you walk across the Kidron Valley, from the Cenacle in Jerusalem to the Chapel of the Ascension at the…
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BY Alan Fimister
A few days ago, in a startling act of blasphemy, Joseph Biden, the second Catholic President of the United States,…
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BY Alan Fimister
There is a difference of opinion in Eastern and Western tradition regarding St Mary Magdalene. In the writings of St…
READ MOREEmptying the Cross of its power
BY Alan Fimister
“Whosoever would be saved before all else it is necessary that he profess the Catholic Faith which faith unless he…
READ MOREMy ways are not your ways
BY Alan Fimister
In 2 Timothy 3:16–17, St Paul tells us that, “All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove,…
READ MOREThe duties of the layman in evil days
BY Alan Fimister
“Actually I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything…
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